Join us for the Piet Zwart Institute (PZI) open day on November 8, 2025
Throughout the day, both the Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA) and the Piet Zwart Institute (PZI) master studio spaces will be open to the public. It is a day when many PZI staff and students are present to answer your questions. Some of our master programmes will hold presentations, and it is also a time when the six WdKA stations (workshops) located throughout the WdKA Blaak 10 and Wijnhaven 61 buildings are open for you to roam in and out of, giving you a better idea of our current facilities.
The Piet Zwart Institute houses four full-time master programmes, Interior Architecture: Research + Design (MIARD); Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design, which encompasses Fine Art (MFA) Lens-Based Media (LB) and Experimental Publishing (XPUB).
And two part-time Master programmes, Education in Arts (MEiA) and Master Design.
Master Fine Art
Location: Wijnhaven 61, 3th floor, open space
The Piet Zwart Institute Master Fine Art invites you to join us on the 3rd floor of Wijnhaven from 10:00 – 3pm to learn more about our pedagogy and community. Course Director Daniel Giles, students and tutors will give an overview of the curriculum, share recent student projects and answer questions about the student experience on campus. You’ll have the opportunity to visit MFA studios and meet current students in the program. The presentation will begin at 12:00 with a Q&A session following directly after.
To learn more about the MFA please visit:
Our website
Online publication platform: BINDER
Instagram: @mfapietzwartinstitute
Lens-Based Media
Location: Wijnhaven 61, fourth floor, Lens-Based Media studios
The Master of Arts in Fine Art & Design: Lens-Based Media program focuses primarily on artistic and experimental lens-based practices (both still and moving image/animation) that embrace the use of artifice, formal and technical innovation, fictional strategies and other unconventional visual approaches to create new and meaningful visions of the world.
We support visions that seek to move beyond the conventional narratives of our society and create new impetus in the viewer towards an open-eyed engagement with myriad challenges humans (and non-humans) collectively face in a world saturated with disinformation, increasing polarisation and fragmentations of communities, centuries-old political and social injustices, marginalisation of the most vulnerable, and a rapidly degrading global environment.
Experimental Publishing (XPUB)
Locations: Wijnhaven 61, fourth floor, XPUB studios
Join us, staff and students of XPUB on Saturday November 8. We will be around from 10:00 to 15:00. You can find us on the 4th floor in the WdKA/PZI building at Wijnhaven 61, Rotterdam.
Can’t make it in person on the 8th of November?
ONLINE OPEN DAY: details follow
A two-year master focussed on the acts of making things public and creating publics in the age of post-digital networks.
When do oracles receive bicycles with libraries? Where can notebooks address protocols on publishing houses? How can administrators explore interviews in plotter parties? Why do bots jam with social shelves about festivals? How can notebooks transmit tools in festivals? When do oracles hack counter-action strategies about publishing houses? Why do collectives situate first-aid kits at workshops? Where can note takers write wikidata on squats? How can bots gender vernacular tools with publishing houses? Where can social justice warriors hack radios in archives? When do bodies write conflicts at media labs? How can gardeners read vernacular tools on public benches? Where can social justice warriors read conflicts about telecom musea?
Interior Architecture: Research + Design [MIARD]
Location: Wijnhaven 61, 4th floor – MIARD Studios WH4.312 & WH4.304
Date: Saturday, 8 November
Time: 10:00 – 15:00
We warmly invite you to join us for the MIARD Open Day on Saturday, 8 November.
This is an opportunity to learn more about our Master Interior Architecture: Research + Design (MIARD) programme, explore our studios and meet our community of students and teachers.
Throughout the day, you’ll be able to view student work, attend a course presentation and speak with teachers and students.
Programme
- 10:00 – Start of the day
- 11:00 – 12:00 – Course Presentation by the Course Director
- 12:00 – 12:30 – Facilities Tour led by students
- 13:00 – 14:00 – Course Presentation by the Course Director (second session)
- 14:00 – 14:30 – Facilities Tour led by students
- 10:00 – 15:00 – Tutors and students available for informal conversations
- 10:00 – 15:00 – Exhibition of first- and second-year student work
You can also explore our MIARD Online Archive to discover student and alumni projects, recent announcements, and our list of exhibitions, awards, and publications.
Can’t make it in person on the 8th?
Send us an email at pzi.coordinators@hr.nl to request an online appointment – we’ll be happy to schedule a time to meet with you online.
Education in Arts
Master Education in Arts
Location: Wijnhaven 61, 4th floor, MA Education in Arts Project Space, WH.04.151.
Please join us on the first Open Day from 10:00 to 15:00!
During the Open Day, the course presents itself by means of a small ‘exhibition’: course material as well as graduation research will be on display providing a detailed insight in the content and profile of the programme. There is ample time to talk to the course director, tutors and students and ask questions you might have about the course. There is also time and space to discuss your possible application. The presentation about the course starts at 12.00.
Is this date not working for you? Please visit one of the other Open Days or Open Information Meetings. https://www.pzwart.nl/master-education-in-arts/open-information-meetings/
Online Publication Platform: http://meia.pzwart.nl
Master Design
Location: Wijnhaven 61, fourth floor, Room WH4.139
Based on their own design questions, students within the Master Design learn to do designerly and in-depth design research. They constantly reflect on what they discover and convey their work and expertise through storytelling. They combine and integrate this part-time master with their design practice, renew their own role and in this way that of creative professionals in society and organizations. They contribute to social, environmental and technological change. The combination of participatory work and authorship is fundamental.
Join us in our second Open Day to find out more on our course and get your questions answered.